Is it possible to use Twitter for a creativity-based final task in History CLIL? The answer is YES. Today I am sharing a final task I did with my second-year CLIL students (History CLIL) using Twitter as a means to consolidate History and Language contents. There are some professionals that do not see the benefits of using Social Media Tools, particularly Twitter, to create tasks and activities. In my opinion, it can be a wonderful tool for developing editing skills and narrative structure, for topic discussion, for writing and punctuation improvement and for creation of chronologically-arranged events (a timeline creation is perfect for consolidation of historical contents). I am going to try and show evidence that using Twitter can be fun, learning-boosting and, above all, meaningful.

Here we go again! This is my first blog entry after holidays (by the way, Happy New Year!). Some days before Christmas time, I entered Clara’s 3-CLIL class (Geography in English, first year) in order to observe first-hand and record how she manages a CLIL class. I was lucky because Sam, the English language assistant, was there as well, acting as a facilitator in the activity. They were carrying out a communicative task on geographic terms. According to Clara, the aim of this facilitating task was the elaboration of small oral texts (basically through definition) using suitable geographic vocabulary. In the previous units the students had worked upon all the concepts they were going to define (transport, capital, market…).